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East Central Alberta has become increasingly diverse in terms of farming operations.Mixed, diversified farms are certainly no longer typical. More the norm are large-acre,sophisticated grain farms and very progressive corporate-owned businesses. The area

has also given way to dairy and poultry operations of significant size. This summer, countless fields of flax, peas, corn and canola dotted the rural landscape. Also noticeable are the efforts of entrepreneurs making their living or supplementing incomes with a wide array of specialty crops. It’s fascinating to witness ideas being implemented and niche farming businesses being launched. Everything from fish to fruit, cucumbers, saskatoons, raspberries, a variety of vegetables and even gladiolus are being raised or grown and harvested in the area on a commercial scale, then sold locally or beyond.

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News Features…Kingman Marketing Group expecting another good harvest . . . . . . . . . 2Best little bench show in the west . . . . . . . 6County supports boat washing . . . . . . . . . . 7Prairie Fun Days bus tour a great way to see the country . . . . . . . . 10

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Peggy, representing her own business, Peg’s Produce, is set up and ready for customers

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By Dan JensenThe Kingman Mar-

keting Group is looking forward to what it hopes will be another successful harvest for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank.

“We are optimistic that our crop (five miles east of the junction of Highways 833 and 617) this year will be the same as if not better than the one last year,” said Guy Anderson, coordinator of the Kingman Grains for the Hungry Project at a fun-draising barbecue Aug. 9.

Whether or not that results in another $96,000 donation to the Canadian Foodgrains Bank is a totally separate question.

“The prices for canola are down by about $2 a bushel from what they were a year ago so we are not anticipating being able to raise quite as much from the crop sales this year,” said Anderson.

The Kingman Grains for the Hungry Project has once again been assisted by generous businesses who have been able to defray crop expenses with the donations of inputs like seed, fertilizer, and insurance, as well as donations of time and money by corporations and individ-uals who see it as being wor-thy of their support.

The amount of dona-tions received last year was approximately $14,000.

“The amount we raised was enough to cover our expenses,” said Anderson. “Our hope is that we will be able to cover expenses again this year, which is one of the reasons we are having this barbecue.”

The amount of time it took for three combines to harvest the 2013 crop was just over four hours.

Supporters gathered to watch the Case and New Holland combines from Rocky Mountain Equip-ment, and the John Deere combine from Battle River Implements roll onto the field.

The Kingman Market-ing Group doesn’t have any say on how the Canadian Foodgrains Bank uses the money that is raised from the sale of the crop.

“They use it as they see fit for the type of aid they need to purchase, whether it be supplying food to coun-tries that need help or fund-ing irrigation and water works projects,” said Ander-son. “One of their main areas of focus right now is Palestine, where many people are living in refugee camps.”

The federal government is committed to match-ing four to one any money raised for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank by projects like the Kingman Grains

for the Hungry. If the project raises the same amount as it did last year, that would mean the amount of money going to provide aid would be in excess of $400,000.

“The Canadian Foodgrains Bank is the only organization in Cana-da that receives four to one funding,” said Anderson. “A lot of them receive one to one or two to one match-ing funds but the Canadian Foodgrains Bank is the only one that gets four to one.”

Anderson isn’t sure whether the government provided full four to one sup-port last year or not. “There is a cap and when the cap is reached the funds aren’t matched anymore,” he said.

Canadian Foodgrains Bank regional coordinator for Alberta Terence Barg noted last year there are 32 projects like Kingman Grains for the Hungry in Alberta and over 200 proj-ects across Canada. Last year, 17,500 tonnes of grain was donated by Canadian farmers, which benefited 2.1 million people in 37 coun-tries.

“One thing we all agree on is that people should not go hungry,” Barg said. “This project is a chance for us to be part of something bigger. We have so much in our area, sometimes we forget our blessings.”

The Kingman Market-ing Group has about 20 members who have been getting together for the past two decades.

“We decided to take on this project because farming has been good to us and we wanted to give back,” said Anderson.

Since its founding in 1983, the Foodgrains Bank has provided over 1.1 mil-lion tonnes of food and seeds worth over $682 million to millions of people in 78 countries.

At the same time, it has grown from five members to 15 churches and church-based agencies representing 32 denominations across Canada.

Today, the Foodgrains Bank is one of Canada’s leading food assistance organizations.

“The story of the Foodgrains Bank is the story of how people across Canada grasped the Bible’s call for those of us who have more than we need to share with those who don’t have enough,” said Foodgrains Bank executive director Jim Cornelius.

“It’s a call that has tak-en root and grown over the past 30 years, enabling the Foodgrains Bank and its member agencies to respond to the needs of people around the world who don’t have enough to eat.”

Kingman MarketingGroup expectinganother good harvest

Kingman Marketing Group member Marion Pattison helped servehamburgers at a fundraising and awareness barbecue Aug. 9

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Wagon drivers hold runoff in Bashaw

The pressure was on Aug. 24 for the drivers attempting to qualify for the for 2015 World Professional Chuckwagon Association pro tour presented by Rocky Mountain Equipment and Case IH. It was the last run at the annual WPCA quali-fication run-off in Bashaw. Former Colonial Days Fair champion Darcy Flad was on the bubble at the start of the day, but the fast run of the weekend secured his spot on the WPCA pro tour for 2015.

Coming off barrel num-ber one in the third heat, Flad, driving the Kelts Transport outfit, posted a time of 1:02:16, the fast-est of the entire qualifica-tion run-off and the best of the afternoon by 34 one-hundredths of a second over Tyson Graham. Former Red Deer champion Jess Willard placed third, Dustin Gorst was fourth, Jim Knight fifth, Dayton Sutherland sixth and Barry Hodgson seventh on the afternoon.

When the points were calculated, Tyson Graham placed first in the qualifica-tion run-off standings with 21 points over four runs. Veteran CPCA driver Jim Knight placed second over-all with 18 points. The first place run of the day vaulted Darcy Flad to a third place overall finish with 17 points. Barry Hodgson and Jess Wil-lard were tied for the final two spots on the 2015 WPCA pro tour with 14 points each, with Hodgson winning the tie-breaker. Dayton Suther-land was the odd man out, placing seventh overall with 13 points.

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Best little bench show in the west

Photos byMurray Green

By Murray GreenThe 30th annual

Round Hill bench show – one of the largest bench shows in western Canada – was held Aug. 12 and 13.

Every year the Round Hill Agricultural Society sponsors the bench show that uses all of the levels at the community centre.

“This year, our entries were up a lot over last year. We didn’t have as many people entered, but we had more entries in total,” shared chair Connie Prost. “We had 1,420 entries. The most were in the photography and flower sections. We had 12 people enter just the flower section.”

Secretary Jean Teeple has been involved in all

30 bench shows that the agricultural society has organized.

“It takes 45 volunteers about 379 hours to prepare for the bench show,” said Debbie Blouin, who head-ed the horticulture section.

“We do some canvass-ing to raise funds for expenses (ribbons for first, second and third place) and the agricultural soci-ety picks up the rest of the cost. We raise that through all of the events during the year.”

Entrants are charged $5 each, but they can enter as many categories as they want.

“We charge $10 a fam-ily and everyone can enter as many as they want,” continued Blouin.

“Some families have six children, so this makes it nice for them. Last time we went to Red Deer, we were told that Round Hill has the largest bench show in western Canada for the size we have. That is kind of nice to know,” said Prost. “The only thing I would like to change is to have more entries in the grain categories. All of the entries came from one person.”

About 13 judges rank the entries before the show opens on the first day.

“The Alberta Horti-cultural Society sends judges to Round Hill to select the top entries,” said Prost. “Other volun-teers help judge the school art and baking.”

Carolyn Blades, of Ohaton, won best overall entry with her flowers.

Diane Martin, with her grandson, Noah Martin,received a first place award for her scarecrow.

Connie Prost attracted attention at the benchshow with her award-winning quilt.

Brooklyn Nahirniak displays the art work of her friend, Aarika Fisher.Ken Wancho stole the spotlight in the baking section.

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County supports boat washingto avoid the spread of musselsBy Murray Green

Camrose County wants visitors who put a boat into water within the area to wash them first to avoid the spread of mussels that can take over lakes.

Councillor Jack Lyle asked County Reeve Don Gregorwich to write a let-ter to the minister respon-sible (Robin Campbell, the minister of Environment and Sustainable Resource Development) to request mandatory washing of boats before they hit the local waters.

“These mussels can multiply in a hurry and take over the lake and

some lakes in the Unit-ed States have had prob-lems. They are spread from one lake to another when they attach them-selves to boats. They are small, so most people don’t see them,” Lyle said. “This piece of pipe had mussels and with 18 months it was completely covered. The mussels themselves are very small, the size of a sunflower shell.”

Councillors agreed to write a letter to see what can be done. The topic was discussed at a Buffalo Lake management team meeting.

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States have a mandatory boat-washing and inspec-tion program.

Quagga and zebra mussels move from lake to lake by attaching them-selves to boats and other recreational equipment.

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AUCTIONEER’S NOTEMr. and Mrs. Solila have sold their farm therefore this Sale. Take note of the Tractors and Haying Equipment. For more information call Leroy Solila at 780-963-7930 or Miller’s Auction Service at 780-789-2226 or 780-920-6738.www.millersauctionservice.com

UNRESERVED ACREAGE AUCTION SALE UNRESERVED FARM AUCTION SALEKERRY AND SHYLA PIRO

Bawlf, Alberta

Saturday, September 20, 2014 – 10:00 a.m.Being from the Junction of Hwy 13 and Secondary 854, go 4 miles north;

or from Junction of Hwy 26 and Secondary 854, go 4 miles south.Watch for signs • GST will be charged where applicable • Lunch Available

LEROY AND DEBRA SOLILAThorsby, Alberta

Saturday, September 27, 2014 – 10:00 a.m.Being from the Junction of Hwy 39 and Secondary 622, go 5 miles west to RR 21, then 1.25 miles north

Watch for signs • GST will be charged where applicable • Lunch Available

Terms: Cash or valid cheques only, certifi ed cheque, bank draft or bank letter of credit. No purchases to be removed until settlement has been made. List is subject to additions and/or deletions. Neither the owner, the auctioneer nor staff of the auctioneer shall be held responsible for any loss or accident on or off the auction site.

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“Mussels canmultiply in a hurry andtake over the lake andsome lakes in the United Stateshave hadproblems.They are spread from one lake to another when they attachthemselvesto boats. Theyare small, somost peopledon’t see them.”

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HEART SMARTMurray Green, Camrose Booster

Karen Webster of the Pelican Point Park committee accepted a Heart Smart defibrillator to place in the park from Alberta Health Services EMS operations manager Kevin Lunty and Camrose County health and safety coordinator Linnet Henderson.

When to fertilizewinter wheatFrom Agri-News

Once the decision to grow winter wheat has been made, one question that frequently comes up is when to fertilize.

“Traditionally, winter wheat has been seeded with very little fertilizer and then fertilized in the spring,” said Doon Pauly, agronomy research scientist, Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, Leth-bridge. “Sometimes, however, producers get caught with not enough time in the spring to fertilize, or things get delayed, and yield is sacrificed.”

Pauly says research has shown that fertilizing at seed-ing can be very effective.

“If you’re banding your fertilizer away from the seed, in a lot of cases you can put down your entire crop’s fertil-izer requirement at the time of seeding. However, people can be a little reluctant to do that as it’s a big investment and there is the potential that what isn’t taken up in the fall can be lost over the winter.”

To balance that potential loss, Pauly says producers can either put down some of the fertilizer at seeding and top it up with a surface application in the spring, or can use a blend of

regular urea with ESN fertil-izer. “This second option gives some immediate nitrogen from the urea while having a portion protected in the ESN form.”

In many areas of the win-ter wheat growing areas of the province, the risk of overwin-tering nitrogen loss is quite low, says Pauly. “In southern Alberta, where most of the win-ter wheat is grown, we don’t typically have big snowmelt events in the spring that give us saturated soil conditions that lead to denitrification. It’s not to say it won’t ever happen, but it is more unlikely to occur in the south than it is in other parts of the province.”

Pauly says his recommen-dation is to put down at least half of the nitrogen in the fall so the crop gets off to a good start. “That way, if you are delayed getting fertilizer on in the spring, you haven’t sacrificed yield. In many cases, you can benefit by putting even more than half down in the fall - it just depends on your comfort level with potentially having some loss.”

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One of the Calgary Stampede’s most signifi-cant events happens after the show is over. The Qual-ity Beef Competition that is conducted the week follow-ing Stampede is extremely important for the Canadian beef industry and is even paid attention to internation-ally.

The Stampede’s Quality Beef Competition features entries that competed in the annual UFA Steer Classic and the jackpot heifer and market heifer competitions. The competition is a means of identifying carcasses of superior quality and encour-ages ranchers to meet the latest in consumer demands. Competition results are examined closely all over the world as beef producers look for the right genetic mix to optimize their commercial herds.

“It’s quite a prestigious event,” notes Robert Lunda-go, who chairs the Stampede Steer Classic committee. “It shows us what our show cat-tle do as far as quality and yield – that’s what the indus-try’s all about. Our competi-tion is designed around the Sterling Silver Program – the most elite carcass pro-gram in the country.”

Judges at the Qual-ity Beef Competition award points for a number of fac-tors that affect the ease of processing the meat, such as carcass weight and fat cover-ing, as well as consumer con-

siderations like an ideal rib eye cut assessed for qualities like marbling, texture and colour.

This year’s competition was held on July 14 at Car-gill Foods in High River. The winning market heifer, entered by Kathryn Dolliver, of Stettler, had AAA60 mar-bling, a rib eye of 87 square centimetres, a Sterling Silver score of 84 and a carcass weight of 727.8 pounds. The Grand Champion’s prize is a cheque for $3,000 plus the value of the carcass.

The Reserve Champion animal was a Speckle Park owned by Barry Ducherer of Neilburg, SK. It had AAA70 marbling, a rib eye of 97 square centimetres, a Ster-ling Silver score of 82 and a carcass weight of 735.8 pounds. Ducherer’s run-nerup prize was a cheque for $2,000 plus the carcass value.

Third place was the Speckle Park entry of Bruce Wrubleski, of New Sarepta, that scored 81 on the Ster-ling Silver scale, produced a rib eye of 95 square centime-tres with AAA50 marbling, and weighed 786.4 pounds.

Bigger isn’t necessarily better in the Quality Beef competition, Lundago notes. “Consumers have told us they want a smaller product. We can grow them a rib eye of 14 or 16 inches, but not many people eat them any-more.”

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Prairie Fun Days bus tour a great way to see countyBy Dan Jensen

Guests on the Prairie Cruiseline bus tour were able to explore Camrose County in air conditioned comfort during Prairie Fun Days Aug. 23 and 24.

“We had 33 riders the first day and 25 on the sec-ond,” said Hazel Cail, exec-utive director of Tourism Camrose, which sponsored the tour with the help of Camrose County.

“They were shocked and pleasantly surprised with the number of places they were able to see.”

Seventeen riders did both the northern and south-ern legs of the tour.

The tour started Satur-day morning from the Peavey Mart Parking lot following a presentation by Enbridge on the Hardisty to Edmonton pipeline.

“We had a woman come on board to tell the riders about what was happening so I delayed the bus for about 10 minutes,” said Cail.

Stops on the first day included the Maplewood

Acres Market Garden and Greenhouse, Hay Lakes Telegraph Park, Glenview Organic Farm and Green-house, Kingman Museum and Tea House, Trondhjem Lutheran Church, Transfig-uration of Our Lord Ukrai-nian Catholic Church, St. Stanislaus Church, Hamp-ton School, Jo-Jo’s Maze Craze and 18-hole Mini Golf, Alberta’s Littlest Airport and the Camrose County Nature Conservation Cen-tre.

The stop at Jo-Jo’s pro-vided an opportunity to sample craft beer from the Norsemen Inn’s Tap Room and Brewery.

Sunday stops includ-ed the Rosebush Lodge Teahouse and Campground, the Meeting Creek Railway Station, Bashaw Fire Hall Museum, Bashaw Centen-nial Nature Trail, Friends of Little Beaver Lake Soci-ety, Ferintosh Manor Bed and Breakfast, Roseberry Lane Market Garden, Ver-dun School, the Peter Fidler Monument, Duhamel Camp-

site and St. Thomas Catholic Church.

“We had lunch at Rose-bush Lodge and the people had the chance to see all the bicycles and buildings,” said Cail. “From there we went to the Meeting Creek Railway Station, where Glenys Smith did her por-trayal of a First World War nurse and people got to ride on a horse-pulled wagon.”

The riders received a warm welcome at Ferintosh Manor Bed and Breakfast.

“The expressions on the faces of the owners, Bert and Berry, was just priceless,” said Cail. “They were so excited so see such a big bus load of people pull up in front of their door.”

The bus tour was one of the ways that Tourism Camrose was able to support Camrose County, which is one of its partners.

A number of the riders expressed they would love to do the tour again next year with the addition of new venues.

Ryan Stang, brewmaster at the Norsemen Inn, pours a cup of craft beer at Jo-Jo’s Maze Craze during the first day of PFD.

The bus had 33 riders the first dayand 25 riders the second.

Helen Samm prepares to board a boatat the Camrose County Nature Conservation Centre.

McSliquors supplied the wine for a tasting event at Ferintosh ManorBed and Breakfast on day two of the tour.

Visitors examine artifacts at Verdun School. A covered wagon ride was offered at the Meeting Creek Railway Station.

Photos courtesyof Hazel Cail

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PCN expands cancer support program

the PCN that part of the treatment wasn’t touched on at the clinic.

“There were a num-ber of concerns raised to us, but we didn’t have the resources to help with them. We have started to find the formula on that the last couple of years. We are working with Well-spring out of Calgary and they will be putting on some workshops for us in Camrose,” said Strilchuk. “Instead of treating cancer, they treat the person. They have been a great resource

for us. All we have to do is host.”

PCN uses the Cancer-Bridges Survivorship Pro-gram for support and it is run by a young cancer sur-vivor.

“Last year, we had four workshops. This year we want to look at workshops for more than one day. We have some good speakers coming in the fall.”

The conference will be held Sept. 19 and 20 at the Norsemen Inn. View www.camrosepcn.com or phone 780-608-4927 for more information.

By Murray GreenCounty residents ben-

efit from the Camrose Primary Care Network’s (PCN) cancer support pro-gram.

PCN executive director Stacey Strilchuk updated county councillors on the PCN and its support efforts.

“We now have 40 phy-sicians. We added groups from Killam, Hardisty and Tofield, so if you look at a map we now cover the Highway 13 corridor from Bashaw right up to For-estburg, Daysland, Killam and Hardisty and now we are moving onto the Tofield area,” she explained.

“This is fantastic. It is an absolute positive for community members to be able to be attached to a Primary Care Network. I am pleased and encouraged by the physician group that has joined us in the Killam, Hardisty and Tofield areas. Those communities have been asking for the PCN for quite some time.”

The added communi-ties add to the PCN and can now speak as part of a larger group.

“It gives them added opportunities, such as fund-ing or services, for their communities and clinics. I’m happy that we can join together,” Strilchuk said. “We have 27 health care providers, including nurses, pharmacists, mental health liaison, dieticians and social

workers, that really support all of the physician group.”

Funding for the PCN comes from Alberta Health in a form of a grant.

“Our grant is based on the number of patients we have. We receive $62 per patient per year, which is an increase over $50 per patient we received two years ago,” informed Strilchuk. “I hope that is increased again.”

The chronic disease management program has been on the rise.

“Those are diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and weight man-agement issues. We work on a referral system and those patients come from the city, county and Flagstaff County. Our numbers are certainly going up,” added Strilchuk. “The number of patients has gone up from 20,201 to 28,303.”

PCN is taking a pro-active approach to geriat-rics by bringing in work-shops on falls.

“As far as physician attraction committee, we are receiving three new physicians, but they are replacing three that are retiring, so we are not look-ing at gaining more doctors. We are looking for more local grads to get into rural medicine,” said Strilchuk. “We have had a surplus in the past, but that is going into the operation budget. However, I am getting a

little nervous because that is going down and we still want to provide services for the community.”

Strilchuk wanted to show the county where the PCN is at and how it is growing.

“Now that we have built a community based care system I believe we can build on that and only get better,” she said. “ I truly believe that.”

Living your Best Life with Cancer and Beyond Conference is one of the newest programs at the local PCN.

“We have chemothera-py treatment in Camrose and unfortunately it is well utilized. The numbers have not gone down. Dr. Smith, Dr. Slabbert and Dr. Let-ley have been passionately engaged in the heal clinic from a clinical perspective. That includes the staff at St. Mary’s Hospital,” con-tinued Strilchuk. “As far as treating the illness, they have done a fantastic job. The piece we were missing until now was the support of those individuals and that holistic approach.”

The Cancer Support Program is able to provide cancer patients, their fam-ily members and caregivers with assistance with find-ing accurate and credible information regarding their cancer diagnosis and relat-ed concerns.

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Community market in Armena has good turnout

The annual Community Market at Armena Sept. 1 had a good turnout. Pictures clockwise from top left:

Cheryl Domes, from Pretty Hill Pottery, displays her creations.

Brad Lyseng had a bucket of cold water poured on his head after accepting the Ice Bucket Challenge, a popular movement to raise money and awareness for the ALS Society.

Janice Olafson was doing good business with her sock monkeys.

Doug Lyseng, from Maple-wood Acres, with a selection of fresh squash and cucumbers.

Rebecca Chrabaszcz and Shari Lange enjoyed blowing soap bubbles.

Matthew Stinson with a pair of freshly baked pies.

The community market was designed to invite people inside our community and visitors from other nearby communities to come by and see the flavour of life in Armena.

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The farm appearing in this photograph is located in the Camrosetrading area. If you recognize it as yours, come to the Camrose Booster,

4925-48 Street, Camrose. You will be presented with afree 8” x 10” color enlargement of the photo.

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